string_jaro_winkler

Functions

• string_jaro_winkler(first, second) ⇒ number

Calculate the Jaro-Winkler distance between two strings. Useful for sorting and fuzzy matching.

• getPrefix(a1, a2, character_limit) ⇒ number

Counts the number of common characters at the beginning of each word up to a maximum of character_limit

string_jaro_winkler(first, second) ⇒ number

Calculate the Jaro-Winkler distance between two strings. Useful for sorting and fuzzy matching.

Kind: global function
Returns: number - similarity score, higher value means strings are more similar, between 0 and 1

Param	Type	Description
first	string	The string to compare
second	string	The string to compare with

Example

string_jaro_winkler("Hello", "Hello") === 1
     string_jaro_winkler("apple", "orange") === 0.58
     string_jaro_winkler("how are you?", "are you good?") === 0.74

getPrefix(a1, a2, character_limit) ⇒ number

Counts the number of common characters at the beginning of each word up to a maximum of character_limit

Kind: global function
Returns: number - number of matching characters from the start of the string, up to limit

Param	Type	Description
a1	string	The first string to compare
a2	string	The second string to compare
character_limit	number